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One analysis a month on transformation, leadership and growth. From practice in banking and financial services since 1990 – no theory, no slides, no advertising. The newsletter is published in German.

Three reasons why it is worth reading.

01

From execution

Every analysis comes from a project I was involved in myself. No model that only works on slides.

02

The mistakes too

What did not work is often more instructive than the success. Both are in it.

03

Read in ten minutes

One issue a month. No weekly rhythm, no advertising, no attachments.

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After confirming, you receive a welcome email. It contains no sales copy, just a suggestion: the sales self-assessment (Sales check, also available in English). The welcome email itself is in German, like the newsletter. Twenty questions, four minutes, an immediate result across five dimensions.

If you send me your result, we discuss it in a first conversation – 30 minutes, free of charge: not just the overall score, but which dimension is pulling the others down and what needs to come first in the next 90 days. You receive suggested dates within 24 hours on working days.

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Who writes it

Markus Slotta in an office building in front of the city skyline

Markus Slotta, MBA has worked in banking and financial services since 1990, more than 20 years of it in leadership roles. As interim manager and transformation lead, he works with banks and financial service providers in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Behind the newsletter is a person, not an editorial team.

For a sense of the tone, read the Insights. More about the person behind it: About me.

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